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50 Heller Grossraming
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grossraming (Municipality of Grossraming) |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned vignette of a forest landscape with a wooden structure at lower left and felled timber at lower right, overlaid with a commemorative text panel dedicated to Leopold von Buch and the assembly of German naturalists and physicians in Vienna on 20 September 1858, with a crossed hammer-and-pick mining emblem at centre. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large red letterpress at lower left, with the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' in ornate red script at upper left and 'Groß-Raming' in matching red script at upper right, flanking the central text. The overall design is printed in two colours on plain paper. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a central decorative cartouche enclosing the denomination inscription 'FÜNFZIG 50 HELLER' in bold letterpress, surmounted by a small ornamental panel. Below, a block of text in German script sets out the redemption obligation of the Gemeinde Grossraming, valid until 31 December 1920 at the municipal office, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot beneath the printed titles of the deputy mayor and mayor respectively. |
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Grossraming is a small market town in Upper Austria's Enns valley, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 50 Heller denomination places this squarely in the 1920–1921 peak period of Austrian local emergency currency, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small-denomination coinage almost entirely absent from everyday commerce.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0296I-50 indicates a first series issue. Municipal Notgeld from villages of this size typically had very small print runs, and many were redeemed and destroyed once the National Bank stabilized small-denomination supply — survivors tend to come from collector sets assembled at the time of issue rather than from actual circulation.